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Faceless

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

“Perhaps the most frightening lesson in Faceless is the fact that having lost their moral authority over their children, parents like Maa Tsuru are totally paralysed by fear, the fear of terrors such as poison…Fofo in her innocence insists she wants to see Government…What she doesn’t know is that Government itself has lost its priorities, its sense of direction; it has become dysfunctional and deaf to the cries of children abandoned…
In Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon, The Housemaid, and especially Faceless, there is a wake-up call to us as Grandmothers/Grandfathers, as Mothers, but especially as Fathers. It is not enough to sow the seeds of human life in quick repeated sessions of reckless ecstasy. Beyond the delight of tears, beyond the passionate intensity of countless orgasms, the future of our children, of our own morality and ancestry awaits our constant vigilance and careful nurturing. No seed grows into harvest joys without the planter’s diligent labour of love. Until we come to this understanding as parents, as family, as community, we will forever stand condemned by the anguish in their eyes and the voices of our children, forever guilty of ‘the nurturing of …prospective soul(s) into the devouring jaws of the streets’.”

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Amma
Darko

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Ghana
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sub-Saharan Publishers

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